...get your popcorn ready folks. ..part two of the Trudeau story on CBC this Sunday...wonder if we'll see him on his motorbike with his WWI German spiked helmet...
jam.canoe.ca/Television/2...42-cp.html
....Grigsby says both productions had budgets in the $8-million range but the prequel proved more difficult because assembling all the period props, from cars to costumes, had become more expensive.
The Trudeau family gets a credit thanks, explains Grigsby, because sons Justin and Alexandre allowed them use of early home movies which had been deposited in the National Archives. Justin dropped by the set one night unannounced when they were shooting a scene on a Montreal street.
"Everybody in the crew's looking over their shoulders.
"He came over and said hello to Tobie. And Tobie stuck his hand out and said 'Hi, I'm playing your dad.' "
The miniseries was shot in English only, although there is a French version with Demers doing his own dubbing. Grigsby says Radio Canada was originally interested as a co-producer but bailed, partly because Trudeau remains a thorny issue for them but also because Telefilm Canada had made some last-minute changes in the rules for financial qualification of co-productions.
jam.canoe.ca/Television/2...42-cp.html
....Grigsby says both productions had budgets in the $8-million range but the prequel proved more difficult because assembling all the period props, from cars to costumes, had become more expensive.
The Trudeau family gets a credit thanks, explains Grigsby, because sons Justin and Alexandre allowed them use of early home movies which had been deposited in the National Archives. Justin dropped by the set one night unannounced when they were shooting a scene on a Montreal street.
"Everybody in the crew's looking over their shoulders.
"He came over and said hello to Tobie. And Tobie stuck his hand out and said 'Hi, I'm playing your dad.' "
The miniseries was shot in English only, although there is a French version with Demers doing his own dubbing. Grigsby says Radio Canada was originally interested as a co-producer but bailed, partly because Trudeau remains a thorny issue for them but also because Telefilm Canada had made some last-minute changes in the rules for financial qualification of co-productions.
